Landon Metz

Reminiscent of Color Field painters like Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, Landon Metz’ paired down aesthetic points to his time growing up in Arizona. His ink-stained canvasses, often arranged around a space in a sequential installation, have a precision and lightness that reflects his airy studio on Canal Street in Manhattan. Metz is not trying to create singular pieces of work, but open out new ways in which one looks at and exists within a particular space.

Landon Metz (b. 1985, Arizona, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Waddington Custot, London (2024); Custot Dubai (2024); Gana Art, Seoul (2023); Sean Kelly, New York (2022); De Brock, Knokke (2022); Von Bartha, Copenhagen (2022); Waddington Custot, London (2021); Von Bartha, Basel (2021); Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2021) and Francesca Minini, Milan (2020).

I don’t consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them. Especially with my latest pieces, the work may be informed by conversations surrounding the medium, but it’s not in any way fixed or limited to them.
Landon Metz

Biography

Awards

2019
Prix Jean François Prat

Residencies

2014
ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2025
VI, VII, Oslo, Norway
De Brock, Brussels, Belgium
2024
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Waddington Custot, London, UK
Christie's, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2023
Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
2022
Von Bartha, Copenhagen, Denmark
De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
2021
Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Waddington Custot, London, UK
2020
Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
2019
De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
2017
Von Bartha, S-chanf, Switzerland
Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
VI, VII, Oslo, Norway
2016
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
2015
Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
James Fuentes, New York, NY, USA
2014
ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy
Retrospective, Hudson, NY, USA
2012
TORRI, Paris, France
2011
Preteen, Mexico City, Mexico

Two Person Exhibitions

2016
Morris Louis / Landon Metz, with Morris Louis, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY, USA
2013
Shake Shack Guggenheim, with Ethan Cook, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
Blue., Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, NY, USA
Reflections: Open Ended, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
2017
Corners / In Between, Norma Mangione, Turin, Italy
Greffes, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Five years of VI, VII, Independent Regence, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Splotch, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
2015
Printed Matter, New York, NY, USA
The Essential Bruce Springsteen, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
173 E 94th St / Chausee de Waterloo 550, Paul Kasmin at Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
From Pre-History to Post-Everything, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
La Chose Encadrée, SWG3, Glasgow International Biennial, Glasgow, UK
2013
F(re)e Play, Stadium, New York, NY, USA
La Suite, TORRI, Paris, France
Organix, Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice, Italy
Space Whole Karaoke, Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Slowed & Throwed, Chinatown Arcade, New York, NY, USA
Can't Stop Rock Lobster, Shoot The Lobster, New York, NY, USA
TLK DRTY, Amstel 41, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Historia Mysteria, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Post Truth, Reference Art Gallery, Richmond, VI, USA
Saint Lawrence Ice, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada